http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Tue, 21 May 2013 18:07:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/10/24/food-day-report-on-how-minimum-wage-hike-would-impact-consumers-workers/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/10/24/food-day-report-on-how-minimum-wage-hike-would-impact-consumers-workers/#comments Wed, 24 Oct 2012 07:01:00 +0000 Kathleen Maclay http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33287 A new report released today, national Food Day 2012, says that a proposal pending in Congress to raise the minimum wage would increase retail food prices for American consumers by about 10 cents a day, while helping nearly 8 million food workers and 21 million other workers. Campus celebrates Food Day.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/10/24/food-day-report-on-how-minimum-wage-hike-would-impact-consumers-workers/feed/ 0 http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/site/comment/reply/9240 http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/site/comment/reply/9240#comments Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:15:54 +0000 Carol Ness http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=14666 Daycare and preschools are important not only to children and their families, they boost California's economy as a whole, according to new research from UC Berkeley's Labor Center. One tidbit from the report: Every dollar spent on early care and education yields $2 in economic output.]]> http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/site/comment/reply/9240/feed/ 0